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Would the name for a bovine classify as a "Wanderwort"?: Sanskrit: Ghou English: Cow Danish: Ko German: Kuh Or is it more of an indication of th
by grafelic 5y ago
Would the name for a bovine classify as a "Wanderwort"?:
Sanskrit: Ghou
English: Cow
Danish: Ko
German: Kuh
Or is it more of an indication of the Indo-European relationship between the languages?
- RamblingCTO 5y agoOnly if it travelled through the languages afaiu. Sounds more like a common root to me, which wouldn't be a wanderwort.
- grafelic 5y agoThanks, that makes sense.
- gpvos 5y agoNo, that would be an inherited word (most likely, I didn't look it up).
- samus 5y agoIt can be both. This word is old enough that it was significantly affected by the evolution of languages. But since some non-Indo-European languages have words that sound similar (the Chinese ones, in my uneducated opinion), it could indeed initially have been a Wanderwort.